Photographic Karma, Giving something back....

While in Mumbai I spent a lot of time with a small community of people who live in a migrant workers camp. The camp is also home to India’s outcastes such as people with physical disabilities and deformaties. The community was incredibly warm and welcoming allowing me to spend time getting to know a few of them even though the language barrier was present we still managed to communicate. This community live in tents and there homes are classed as below slum level living. The community touched my heart and helped me to gain a perspective on my life as well as helped me to reaffirm my belief in people.

As a gift to the community I gave the people back the photos I had taken of them on previous visits, this was my way of saying thank you. I did not tell them I would do this and here is the results from the day I went back with the image….

looking through the photos (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

One of the women holding the image of her I took previously  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

Jennifer who was my first contact within the community and who always took care of the way she looked holding the portrait of herself  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

A grandmother and her grandchild pose after I presented them with their image  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

Both mother and child with the image taken previously  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

Two boys study the image of themselves  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

Holding up images of themselves a family sit inside their home  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

An image of their settlement is held up by one of the small children  (image copyright property of Nicholas Adams)

Sometimes a photo is worth more to a person than money….

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